JCStress HTML output: clarification on Failed vs Error

Aleksey Shipilev aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com
Wed Dec 18 06:01:42 PST 2013


Hi Gilles,

Thanks for the report!

On 12/18/2013 05:23 PM, Gilles Duboscq wrote:
> I find the HTML output a bit confusing regarding the usage of the words
> "failed" and "error".

Yeah.

> If i understand correctly, the result "ERROR" can be interpreted as "this
> test could not be run to completion" while "FAILED" is "this test ran to
> completion but the results are in violation of what was expected".

That's a correct interpretation.

> I think the patch below would make things clearer.
> 
> Also it may be useful to have a quick summary of the *failed* tests.

I committed the variation of your suggestion:
 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/code-tools/jcstress/rev/c9b049f10fac

Please update and try again. (Remember, if you have the results already,
you can re-parse them with -p without running any tests).

-Aleksey.



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